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Rachel Syme

Rachel Syme

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Maya Hawke Goes Back to School - The New Yorker

Still, Hawke, who is twenty-five, feels some angst about leaping immediately into her career, perhaps because her parents are Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. In the past year, she has had roles in“Maestro” and “Asteroid City,” and in her father’s film “Wildcat,” in which she plays a young Flannery O’Connor. Hawke says that one way she processes the “big, big feelings” around her snowballing fame is by leaning into songwriting. Her third album, “Chaos Angel,” comes out on May 31st. On the track “Mis…
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Sofia Coppola's Path to Filming Gilded Adolescence - The New Yorker

There are plenty of distinguished bloodlines in the history of Hollywood—the Selznicks and the Mayers, the Warners, the Hustons, the Bergman-Rossellinis, the Fondas—but very few, like the Coppolas, in which one famous director has spawned another. After an early life spent in front of the camera, Sofia Coppola made a career behind it, becoming one of the most influential and visually distinctive filmmakers of her generation, with eight features to her name. Her second, “Lost in Translation,” fro…
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“My Name Is Barbra,” Reviewed: Streisand’s Mother of All Memoirs - ...

Streisand was always willful. She was not always lucky. Her father, a gentle academic named Emanuel, died from seizure complications when she was a year old. Her mother, Diana, could be cruel and strangely absent, particularly after she married Louis Kind, a man who seemed to resent Streisand’s existence. “I was like a wild child, a kind of animal,” Streisand writes. “There was no routine and no rules.” She shoplifted and stole Kind’s cigarettes, which she smoked on the roof. She developed chron…
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Nanci Griffith's Lone Star State of Mind - The New Yorker

The tribute album was originally conceived before Griffith’s death, by the former Rounder Records president John P. Strohm. It now serves as a kind of musical memorial. Jarosz sings the first song on “More Than a Whisper”: a gentle folk cover of “You Can’t Go Home Again,” a ballad off Griffith’s second album, from 1982, “Poet in My Window.” Jarosz grew up in Wimberley, Texas, not far from Griffith’s home town of Austin, and told me that, when selecting what song to cover from Griffith’s deep cat…
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How Much More Netflix Can the World Absorb? - The New Yorker

Bela Bajaria, who oversees the streaming giant’s hyperaggressive approach to TV-making, says success is about “recognizing that people like having more.”
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High School | The New Yorker

High School  The New Yorker
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Celebrity Book Club | The New Yorker

Celebrity Book Club  The New Yorker

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How I Learned to Wear a Baseball Hat - The New Yorker

The Internet is awash in novelty baseball hats, but I’ve found that the best ones are unearthed late at night, on eBay, guided by whatever keywords spring to mind.
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On and Off the Avenue | The New Yorker

A collection of articles about On And Off The Avenue from The New Yorker, including news, in-depth reporting, commentary, and analysis.
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A Little Bit Culty - The New Yorker

A Little Bit Culty - The New Yorker
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Patti Harrison Means It (Except When She Doesn't) - The New Yorker

The rising star of comedy discusses “I Think You Should Leave,” corporatized wokeness, A.D.H.D., and humor that swerves between sarcasm and sincerity.